Our Traditions
Advent – Wednesday night Services with confirmation kids serving chili before hand
Children’s Christmas program
Christmas Eve Services
Lent – intentional “adding” of prayers, Bible reading, quiet time - rather than “giving up”
Ash Wednesday – ashes, burning of the palms from last Easter
Wednesday Vesper services with Confirmation kids serving soup beforehand
Holy Week – Daily services
Palm Sunday dramatic reading of the Passion story interspersed with Choir music
Messianic Seder Supper on Palm Sunday evening
Maundy Thursday Washing of the feet/Holy Communion/stripping of the altar
Good Friday – prayers around the cross, offering of 30 pieces of silver
Easter Vigil that crosses over midnight
Easter Morning – sunrise and festival worship
Easter season – sanctuary shifts each week more and more from white & gold to red
Pentecost – wear red
Blessing of the Animals – first weekend of October
Reformation Sunday – Confirmation Sunday – wear red
All Saint’s Sunday – book of names of those who have died, reading of the list in church
Thanksgiving Eve worship service – blessing of the loaves sent home to Thanksgiving tables
Faith Stepping Stones program which blesses kids who are going through a faith passage
Baptism
Entering Sunday School
First Bible
Communion
Entering Confirmation
Affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation)
High School Graduation